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package org.apache.log4j.spi;

/**
 * 
 * Implementions of this interface allow certain appenders to decide when to
 * perform an appender specific action.
 * 
 * 
 * For example the {@link org.apache.log4j.net.SMTPAppender} sends an email when
 * the {@link #isTriggeringEvent} method returns true and adds the
 * event to an internal buffer when the returned result is false.
 * 
 * @author Ceki Gülcü
 * @since version 1.0
 * 
 */
public interface TriggeringEventEvaluator {

    /**
     * Is this the triggering event?
     */
    public boolean isTriggeringEvent(LoggingEvent event);
}